The child born of void and voidable marriages under Hindu Law is

Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act provides that a child of a void marriage "shall be legitimate", and that a child of a voidable marriage annulled by a decree of nullity is deemed to be legitimate as if the marriage had been dissolved by divorce.

Such a child takes the property of its parents, though not, by reason of section 16(3), of other relations; the Supreme Court in Revanasiddappa v. Mallikarjun (2023) held that this includes the parent's share in coparcenary property on notional partition.